Re: [PATCH 2/3] [kexec-tools] Pass vmcoreinfo's address and size

Ken'ichi Ohmichi
2007-10-17T05:19:56Z

Hi Simon,

Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:13:39PM +0900, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote:
>> [2/3] [kexec-tools] Pass vmcoreinfo's address and size
>> The patch is for kexec-tools-testing-20070330.
>> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/)
>> kexec command gets the address and size of the vmcoreinfo data from
>> /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo, and passes them to the second kernel through
>> ELF header of /proc/vmcore. When the second kernel is booting, the
>> kernel gets them from the ELF header and creates vmcoreinfo's PT_NOTE
>> segment into /proc/vmcore.
>
> Sorry for the long delay, I completely missed this patch.
>
> The kexec-tools change seems ok to me. What is the status of
> the kernel portion of the change?

The kernel portion is merged into linux-2.6.23-mm1.
According to Andrew's mail "-mm merge plans for 2.6.24", its status is
"The infamous misc. Will re-review and will merge basically all of them".

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0710.0/0313.html

> Do you still want the kexec-tools portion applied?

Yes, I hope so.

Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi